Raven Art Gallery and Framing Will be Relocating as of January 1

Raven Art Gallery and Framing will be relocating as of January 1;

Details regarding the relocation will be forthcoming .  

As of January 1, the classes taught by the teachers  and life drawing  

will continue

 at  a new location.   

Lorin Willey takes class on Tour of the Current Impressionistic Exhibit at MAM

Great Evening at the Milwaukee Art Museum touring the Impressionists Drawing Exhibit at the MAM with Lorin Willey followed by a delicious dinner at County Claire
You should have been there.

Next week Lorin's classes continue at the Raven Art School on Thursday from 6 to 8:30 pm.
For a complete list of all the classes offered see
Raven Art School

Watch Instructor Judith Reidy Create a Portrait

Initial Block In

2nd defining further.....

working on the shirt...simplify

Refining The underpainting or
Imprimatura
Watch for more further development of the portrait....

Would you like to learn to paint portrait?... try studying painting with Judith Reidy at Raven Art School.

Beginning Acrylic Painting Student Third Artwork after Three Lessons

In the beginning Acrylic painting class this is an example of a landscape painting completed by a student, Diane Miller,  in their third complete 2 hour lesson.
If you drop in at the Raven Art School Studio you will see the process for making the painting,

• beginning with the watercolor like use of acrylics in the sky background,
• doing an under painting of the lighthouse
• followed by a glazes of color on the lighthouse
• concluding with creation of the foreground of grasses.

Of course there is instruction on how to mix the colors, applying glazes and various brush techniques in creating the grassy foreground during live lesson.

  Why don't you join us  on Thursday Mornings  from 10 to noon and grow as a painter!  Class instruction is reasonable.

NEW

Saturday Morning Painting a Still Life, 

Chose to work with an instructor or independently in a wonderful atmosphere of fellow painters.

Beginner through Advanced 

9:30 to 11:30 am

Remember this week is the first week for our Saturday morning still life sessions.

See the Raven Art school page for more details

New November Raven Art School Schedule Featuring " Create Your Own Class"

  November 

Raven Art School Schedule

  has  added features

such as
NEW
Saturday Morning Painting a Still Life, 
Chose to work with an instructor or independently in a wonderful atmosphere of fellow painters.
Beginner through Advanced
9:30 to 11:30 am
With instruction  $28 per class   4classes/$100
Without instruction $10 per class


PLUS

Create you own Class

 Working with an instructor, you can create special classes for fun with friends....

• with convenient times for a  group of 4 or more 
• in media of choice; oil, acrylic, watercolor or pastel.....
• choice of subjects.....
• with group get a special rate

Call the instructor, Judith Reidy at 414-510-2065 to discuss your options.

Regular Weekly offerings are as follows......

Workshops, Paint Club, Classes, Live Models

Raven Art School

Please Register for Ongoing Daytime Classes 24 hours before class or call.

Mondays   

• Beginning  Painting in Acrylic Mondays  Mornings 10 am - Noon  (Offered at this time through November 7 then will be moved to Thursday AM starting November 14)
  Instructor: Judith Reidy
  During this four week introductory class you will complete 4 small 9" x 12" paintings while learning about basic materials and techniques of acrylic painting.    See materials list
  $100/ 4 week course Beginning  Painting in Acrylic Mondays  Mornings 
  
   

• Painting in all Media  Monday Afternoon 1- 3 PM
  Instructor: Judith Reidy
  During this four week session you will have an opportunity to experiment with new directions in your favorite media.  Greater emphasis will be placed on focal point, composition, perspective, and advanced material usage.   Stand up Easel Appropriate chosen media and Light Clamp -materials at Student discretion.$100/4 week session Painting in all Media Monday Afternoon

• Independent Study  Monday Afternoon 3:15-5:15 PM  
  Instructor: Judith Reidy
  For those that would like private lessons there are limited spaces available in this time slot.
  $200/4 week session Independent Painting Mondays Late Afternoon
  

Please Register or call.414-510-2065 for Ongoing Daytime Classes  no less than 24 hours before class.  

• Raven Art School Live Figure Drawing Session 6:30pm- 9pm There are live figure drawing  and sessions EVERY Monday from  6:30 -9 pm.  It is open to the serious artist public and is without an instructor.   Nude or  Live Staged  Portrait Character model 
  $10/evening session.

Thursdays  throughout the day

• Beginning  Painting in Acrylic Thursday Mornings  10 am - Noon
  Instructor: Judith Reidy
  During this four week introductory class you will complete 4 small 9" x 12" paintings while learning about basic materials and techniques of acrylic painting. See materials list
  $100/ 4 week course Beginning  Painting in Acrylic Thursday  Mornings 
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Beginning  Painting in  Oil  Thursday Afternoons 1- 3 PM
  Instructor: Judith Reidy
  During this four week introductory class you will complete 2 small 9" x 12" paintings while learning about basic materials and techniques of oil  painting:  Grisaille, the technique of the old masters and alla prima of the new masters.   See materials list
  $100/ 4 week course Beginning  Painting in  Oil  Thursday Afternoons 
  
  
  
  
• Painting in all Media  Thursday Afternoon 1- 3 PM
  Instructor: Judith Reidy
  During this four week session you will have an opportunity to experiment with new directions in your favorite media.  Greater emphasis will be placed on focal point, composition, perspective, and advanced material usage.   Stand up Easel Appropriate chosen media and Light Clamp -materials at Student discretion.$100/4 week session Painting in all Media Thursday Afternoon
  

• Independent Study Painting  Thursday Afternoon 3:15- 5:15 PM
  Instructor: Judith Reidy
  For those students that would like private lessons there are limited spaces available in this time slot.  Call 414-510-2064 to verify and confirm your admission to class with the instructor as the class has limited space.
  $200/4 week session Independent Painting Mondays Late Afternoons

 NEW Times and Classes beginning  on November 1,  2011 Please Register or call.414-510-2065 for Ongoing Daytime Classes  no less than 24 hours before class.  

• Intermediate and Advanced Painting Thursday Evenings 6 - 8:30 pm
  Instructor: Lorin Willey
   For over two decades he has been inspiring students and professional artists with his energetic and enthusiastic approach to teaching and lecturing on the ways of art. His classes focus heavily on the individual artist’s development of creative and technical skills. Lorin coined his approach the “3-Cs”; Creativity, Craftsmanship, and Clarity of Intent. He has judged numerous regional art competitions, including several Wisconsin Regional Arts Program Exhibits and Plein Air events, and has lectured at many of Wisconsin’s Art Institutions including Wisconsin Painters and Sculptures, Wisconsin Pastel Society, the Waukesha County Arts League, the West Allis Artists Alliance, and the Kettle Moraine Pastel Artists to name a few. We are sure that you will find these classes inspiring and packed full of skill sets that will enhance your use of all the major tools for creating fine art.
  $140/ 4 week session(edited rates are available, contact the Raven Gallery for information)
  
  Lorin's classes are ongoing.  Call or drop in at the Raven to register.

Saturdays  mornings.....

Painting a Still Life for Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Level  Artists Saturday 9:30 to 11:30 am Chose to work with an instructor an independently  .With instruction

• $28 per class
  
  
  
  
• or 4 classes/$100
  
  
  
  
  ;Without instruction

•  $10 per class
  
  
  
  

For more information about the the Raven Art School Offerings call 414-510-2065 or visit the Raven Art School Page

Beginning Oil Painting in Four weeks

This is the typical example of the two types of paintings that will be made during this four week introductory oil painting class.

Teapot and Pastry	Raven Bottle
Traditional Painting (Indirect Method) Begin with Grisaille (monochromatic underpainting ) creating the form Apply glazes of oil colors to create the color This Indirect painting is a work in progress.......	Alla Prima (Direct Method) With a clear pattern of light & dark in mind Begin with a simple draw in of the shapes,  noting shadows and reflected lights This alla prima or (direct method) painting is completed.

Watch for announcements  in Mid-October for  upcoming class offerings and time changes beginning soon.

An Evening with Lorin Willey Thinking out about Temperature.... and Color

Students Watching Lorin....

Lorin Willey, Raven Art School's Intermediate and Advanced Instructor, spends the better part of Thursday evening sharing insights about painting. but sometimes  at the end of the evening he just sits and thinks. Here  we have some thoughts   Lorin would like to share on color....

Temperature and Color 

My students often get confused about temperature and what it means in painting. It’s best to keep this simple to begin with. Warm is yellow, and cool is blue. Whenever a color leans towards yellow it begins to get warmer. Whenever a color leans towards blue it begins to get cooler.

Let’s take red. If you add yellow to red it appears warmer. If you add blue to red it appears to get cooler. This will happen with all of your colors.  Yellow is warmer than red. Let me give you an example of this.  Why does ultramarine blue appear cooler than cerulean blue? When one paints a summer sky as we look upwards the blue gets cooler.  And when we paint this color we often will use ultramarine blue.  Ultramarine appears cooler than cerulean blue because it tends towards reddish, or violet. Cerulean blue tends towards greenish which is warmer because of the addition of green which is made with yellow added to blue.  We often use cerulean blue as the summer sky dips towards the horizon.  The yellow sunlight begins to reflect off the earth’s atmosphere which is made of vapor and dust particulates. This tends to shift the blue sky towards a warmer tone.

Also keep in mind that if you add white, or black to your colors that this will also cool them. This is because white and black tend towards blue in that they will cool down your mixtures. I will often tell my students to simply think of white and black as blue. By warming your whites and blacks with yellows, oranges and reds before adding them to mixtures you can counter this affect. Often when painters want a warm shadow they will use an earth like tone made of other colors in their palette. For example if you used a mixture of ultramarine blue and burnt umber to make  your dark tone in the shadows, you could easily warm this shadow by adding more burnt umber to this mixture, and likewise if you wanted to cool this same mixture you would simply add more ultramarine.
.

  Here is Lorin Doing Demo on Color......
  Ah! That is what the students were watching!

If you wanted to warm this same mixture even further you could add red or yellow to it. Keep in mind that red, violet and green are warmer than blue, and that red, orange and green are cooler than yellow

Just remember that yellow is the warmest color on your palette, and blue is your coolest. An addition of either version of these two hues will shift your mixture in that colors particular direction and temperature.

Yours in paint,

Lorin Willey

Lorin Willey teaches a class every Thursday evening at the Raven Art School. 

Intermediate and Advanced Painting Thursday Evenings 6 - 8:30 pm

Instructor: Lorin Willey

 For over two decades he has been inspiring students and professional artists with his energetic and enthusiastic approach to teaching and lecturing on the ways of art. His classes focus heavily on the individual artist’s development of creative and technical skills. Lorin coined his approach the “3-Cs”; Creativity, Craftsmanship, and Clarity of Intent. He has judged numerous regional art competitions, including several Wisconsin Regional Arts Program Exhibits and Plein Air events, and has lectured at many of Wisconsin’s Art Institutions including Wisconsin Painters and Sculptures, Wisconsin Pastel Society, the Waukesha County Arts League, the West Allis Artists Alliance, and the Kettle Moraine Pastel Artists to name a few. We are sure that you will find these classes inspiring and packed full of skill sets that will enhance your use of all the major tools for creating fine art.
$140/ 4 week session(edited rates are available, contact the Raven Gallery for information)

All Classes are ongoing.  Call or drop in at the Raven to register.

 To learn more about classes go here.

A Beginner Oil Painting is Progressing

A few post ago you saw this image of painting at the beginning stages.

As you can see the form of the pot and fruit and plate are more developed.  The important issue is reading values.  We use the common tool of squinting  plus a little known technical tool that simplifies colors and values and makes them more easy to read.

After the work in this traditional classical grisaille technique of a well developed value weighted monochromatic under-painting, we begin glazing the monochromatic under-painting with "veils" of color.  


But there is another way we learn to paint....more loosely...ala prima.  If you check the next images you will see a set up of  a still life with grapes and pomegranates with an ala prima painting of the still life near the bottom of the image.

See the still life with the wine bottle and the painting made from it.


Remember the 

sCary aRT Show 2011

 is coming in full force this month 
and
 you need to be ready for it!
go here for details

Great Time At Life Drawing Last Monday

Why don't you have a good time with us at life drawing and painting sessions every Monday evening at Raven Art School from 6:30 to 9:30 pm?  This past week we had another blast.....

Life Drawing and Painting Weekly

EVERY Monday Evening 6:30- 9:00 PM
Assuming that we get started at 6:30, it will go something like this with either: 

• a Live Nude Model 
• or Live Character Portrait Pose

 For current weeks offering see the Calendar of Events.


For Live Nude Figure Drawing
15 minutes of quick poses 1 minute, 2 minute 5 minute (approx.)
Two 15 minute poses to 7:30
10 to 15 minute break.
7:15 to 8:15 ( 3 – 20 minute poses) 
10 to 15 minute break
1 – 30 minute pose (session ends at 9:00)


For Live Character Portrait Pose
There will be longer pose.
For those who would like doing a variety of short  views, we suggest that they move about the room and view the model from different perspectives.


For current weeks offering see the Calendar of Events.


What do you need to Bring?
Bring whatever you like to draw with and some paper. I suggest a hard board of some kind to back you drawing paper with a clamp to hold the paper to the board.
Conte, vine charcoal, pencil, pastel, erasers (preferably gum erasers, I think they work the best) a sharpener,
YOU also may paint......  as we have a great evening together working from a live model.....


$10 per evening session

Happy Birthday, Orel, on Behalf of all at Raven Art School

Orel,  Happy Birthday

Tonight while we paint in the Lorin Willey's Thursday Evening Painting Class we will be gearing up to celebrate Orel's Birthday.

Please come and join in the fun.  

Painting critiquing, eating cake and having a great time.

Remember we have a full day of Classes today.

10-Noon Beginning Oil Painting

1-3 pm  Painting in all Media

and  of Course 

Lorin Wiley's Advanced and Intermediate Painting

6-8:30 PM

for details about these Thursday Classes and our Monday classes go to 

Raven Art School

Learn the Fundamentals of Painting at Raven Art School

This student had never worked from life...yet is competently creating form using the grisaille method of underpainting for the first time. Once completed with the grisaille underpainting, she will begin glazing over the underpainting creating glowing color in her painting. Following this indirect method of painting, she will do an alla prima ( direct method) painting of the same or similar subject.  In this four week painting class the student will complete two paintings.


Through the process, the student learns how to use a grid in drawing, to judge values, color mixing and begins understanding composition.


Consider joining us on Thursday for this Beginning Oil Painting class in the mornings from 10 to noon.  Or if you prefer painting in acrylic, try our Beginning Acrylic Painting in the morning on Monday from 10 to noon.


We also have  Monday and Thursday  intermediate painting classes  accommodating the specific direction of the student artist.

For details check out.Raven Art School Page

Past Monday Night Live Drawing Women in White Lit by Candlelight

NGot some pics from last nights drawing class.

Judith Reidy by Jenny Anderson  (see Jenny on Facebook)

 a few samples from the session.....

JOIN us next week 

  for Schedule see

Life Drawing and Painting Weekly

Why not draw or Paint a character portrait tonight...dressed in white defused by candle light! - Life Drawing with Character Portrait At Raven Art School Monday Tonight

Why not draw or Paint a character portrait tonight... who is dressed in white with candle light!

Tonight at the Raven Gallery, you will have the opportunity to paint or draw a model posed in white  lite by candle light.  How often do you have the opportunity to create work with a model clothed in subtle whites infused with a dramatic candle light?  Tonight is your night.

One of the new things we are doing at the Raven is Character Portrait Poses this fall. Besides going to a WEEKLY schedule with a mix of nude and portrait models, we are adding a feature of themed character portrait poses. We would love to see you there...get your ideas for themes and portrait set ups that would interest you.

Tonight classes begin EVERY Monday evening starting at 6:30 pm and going to 9 pm.

For details about this session and other new daytime classes and  continuing Thursday evening class  see calendar and Raven Art School

Will you EVER learn to Paint?

Have you ever wanted to REALLY learn to paint?  Or have you been painting but feel like your not making any real progress?  There is nothing like a refreshing "back to the Basics" painting class to put you back on track to success.

The Raven Art School is offering two Beginning Painting Classes, one in Acrylic and the other in Oil that will cover the essentials of painting in a clear and organized way.

I am your instructor, Judith Reidy.  Nothing gives me greater pleasure than guiding a student in developing as a painter.  I am interested in providing you with insight into how you could more systematically develop and attack a  painting idea.  I know  the feeling of what it is like to flounder as a student learning to paint..  I would like to make your growing pains as a painter less arduous....more anticipatory.  I would love to come along side you on your journey.

In addition to offering two Beginning Painting Classes one in Acrylic on Monday Mornings and the other in Oil on Thursday Mornings I will be offering an Intermediate level class Painting in All Media on Monday and Thursday  afternoon.    See details about classes here

If you would like to learn more about the classes please contact me here, mentioning your interest.

Green and Gold Flu Cancels Thursday Evening.Sept.8,2011 Advanced and Intermediate Painting with Lorin Willey at the Raven Art School

This Thursday Evening Sept. 8,2011,

Raven Art School

 Advanced and Intermediate Painting with Lorin Willey

 will be cancelled

 due to a 

SERIOUS AND HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS 

GREEN and GOLD Flu  

Hope you enjoy the BIG Game

 tonight 

and see you 

next Thursday Sept. 15, 2011, 

once all have recovered.

To learn more about the Raven Art School Check out this link.

Sorry for ANY inconvenience.

Taking Applications for Live Models at the Raven Art School

We are taking applications for live models, both unclothed figurative or character portrait models for a Monday evening Live Figure and Portrait Drawing and Painting  Studio.  You may make application here.   Please do not send images unless requested. 

 Just a quick reminder that today

 we are launching our Fall Classes at the Raven Art School  

For details about:

• the new daytime classes 
• and our evening life drawing painting sessions 
• and our evening intermediate and advanced classes 

check out this

 link. 

Raven Art School Fall 2011 Painting Classes and Weekly Life Drawing Sessions

Raven Art School  Fall Painting Class and open studio schedule.

Exciting News 

 4  New Daytime
 Beginner and Intermediate Painting Classes

on Mondays and Thursday  

and 

 Now WEEKLY
Open Life Drawing and Painting Studio
on Monday evenings.

 Intermediate and Advanced Painting
with Lorin Willey
on Thursday Evenings 

A summary of the  schedule  follows:  For details about current classes and life drawing open studio  go to Raven Art School

Mondays  Instructor:Judith Reidy Beginners Painting in Acrylic and Oil  Mornings 10 am - Noon Painting in all Media  Afternoon 1 - 3 pm  Mondays Raven Gallery Life Drawing 6:30 to 9:00 pm ( no instructor) Weekly Fall Life Drawing Evening Sessions beginning September 12 Nude or  Live Staged  Portrait Character model  Would you like to apply as a model? Apply here	Instructor Judith Reidy
Instructor Lorin Willey	Thursdays Instructor:Judith Reidy Beginners Painting in Acrylic and Oil  Mornings 10 am - Noon Painting in all Media  Afternoon 1 - 3 pm Instructor: Lorin Willey Intermediate and Advanced Painting Evenings 6 to 8:30 PM  For details about current classes  go to Raven Art School

Lorin Willey's Thursday Night Class...what a blast!

We had such a good time learning from Lorin Willey last night. There are a few spots left in the class...you should come!!